[announce] Periodical note from the DNSO Secretariat, Nov 27th, 1999

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Periodical note from the DNSO Secretariat
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November 27th, 1999

1. General information about the DNSO General Assembly
2. Information about GA-ga list
3. Number of participants in different dnso.org mailling lists.

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1. General information about the DNSO General Assembly

   A member of the DNSO GA is any natural person who is interested
   in Internet domain names issues, and is:
        subscribed to the GA-ga or GA-announce lists;
        subscribed to a working group list; or
        a Names Council member; or
        a member of a DNSO Constituency.
   The ga@dnso.org is the DNSO General Assembly main mailing list.
   The announce@dnso.org is the DNSO Announcements mailing list.
   Both lists are open for subscription, and are managed by majordomo
   software.
   The ga@dnso.org is restricted to its membership, any member may
   write to it provided he/she respects its rules.
   The announce@dnso.org is restricted to announcements related
   to the DNSO, only the DNSO Secretariat may write to it.

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2. Information about GA-ga list

* The ga@dnso.org list contact address is ga-listadmin@dnso.org

* To unsubscribe from the ga@dnso.org send an e-mail 
  to majordomo@dnso.org with the words "unsubscribe ga" 
  in the body of the message (without double quotes)

* The policy for posting (sent at the time of subscription to
  every new member of the ga@dnso.org list) is:
     --Limit comments to those related to the topic of the DNSO.
     --Consider this list precious, and take care of it.
     --Consider time necessary to read all comments, especially
       for non native English speakers.
     --Respect other participants, do not insult anybody.
     --Do not cross-post messages.
     --Do not post advertisements.

* The filtering of well known lists is set for ga@dnso.org
  (not cross-post rule)

* The number of members currently barred from posting to 
  ga@dnso.org is 3

* The number of e-mail addresses commented out by the DNSO Secretariat
  in two main lists is:
       GA-announce  -  2
       GA-ga        - 10
  Each case corresponds to a different PERSISTENT technical problem:
       Unknown recipient: XXX@ing-barings.com
       <XXX@eagle-it.com.mm>... User unknown
       XXXs@dnspolicy.com... Host unknown (Name server: dnspolicy.com: 
                             host not found)
       <XXX@addr.net>... Deferred: Connection refused by mail.addr.net
       <XXX@amauta.rcp.net.pe> the user's mailbox is full
       XXX@ecowasmail.net... Host unknown (Name server: ecowasmail.net: 
                             host not found)
       (expanded from: <XXX@cni.cbinf.com>) XXX@hotmail.com... User unknown
       air-zb02.mail.aol.com: XXX IS NOT ACCEPTING MAIL FROM THIS SENDER
       <XXX@bigsky.net>... Relaying denied
       <XXX@spike.fibertron.com>... Deferred: Connection timed out
       <YYY@pccf.net>,<XXX@pccf.net> ... Deferred: No route to host

* The dnso.org server is hosted by AFNIC (NIC-France)
  All dnso.org lists are archived, to allow permanent access
  to all past subjects, see http://www.dnso.org/archives.html
  ("All archives at glance" from the main page).

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3. Number of participants in different dnso.org mailling lists.
As of today, Sat Nov 27 19:09:08 MET 1999 :

Nb of different email addresses in all lists
(ga, announce, wg-b, wg-c, wg-d, wg-e) = 482

Nb of different email addresses in WGs lists
(wg-b, wg-c, wg-d, wg-e) = 213


Nb in  ga@dnso.org list 249
Nb in       wg-b  95 ,  73  are not in ga@dnso.org
Nb in       wg-c 105 ,  57  are not in ga@dnso.org
Nb in       wg-d  46 ,  17  are not in ga@dnso.org
Nb in       wg-e  21 ,   9  are not in ga@dnso.org
Nb in   announce 205 ,  97  are not in ga@dnso.org

Nb in  announce@dnso.org list 205
Nb in       wg-b  95 ,  78  are not in announce@dnso.org
Nb in       wg-c 105 ,  70  are not in announce@dnso.org
Nb in       wg-d  46 ,  26  are not in announce@dnso.org
Nb in       wg-e  21 ,  10  are not in announce@dnso.org
Nb in         ga 249 , 141  are not in announce@dnso.org

Nb in  wg-b, wg-c, wg-d, wg-e lists 213
Nb in       wg-b  95 ,  68  are neither in ga@dnso.org nor in announce@dnso.org
Nb in       wg-c 105 ,  52  are neither in ga@dnso.org nor in announce@dnso.org
Nb in       wg-d  46 ,  15  are neither in ga@dnso.org nor in announce@dnso.org
Nb in       wg-e  21 ,   8  are neither in ga@dnso.org nor in announce@dnso.org
Nb in       WGs  213 , 127  are neither in ga@dnso.org nor in announce@dnso.org

DNSO Secretariat
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The DNSO Secretariat is grateful to Harald Tveit Alvestrand
for his suggestion.